| |
| |
Introduction | |
| |
| |
Some Caveats | |
| |
| |
| |
The Roots of The Blues: 1619-1919 | |
| |
| |
Timeline: 1619-1919 | |
| |
| |
History and Origins of the Blues | |
| |
| |
African Musical Traits in African American Music | |
| |
| |
African American Spirituals | |
| |
| |
Early Black Secular Music | |
| |
| |
The Minstrel Show | |
| |
| |
The Early Blues | |
| |
| |
Social Conditions at the Birth of the Blues: 1870s-1900 | |
| |
| |
The Blues: 1890-1920 | |
| |
| |
Subject Matter | |
| |
| |
Ragtime and Early Jazz | |
| |
| |
Blues Structure | |
| |
| |
Learning to Play or Sing the Blues | |
| |
| |
Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
The 1920s: Documented Beginnings of the Classic and Rural Blues | |
| |
| |
Timeline: The 1920s | |
| |
| |
Ma Rainey and Her Influence on the Blues | |
| |
| |
Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues | |
| |
| |
The Recordings and Importance of Bessie Smith | |
| |
| |
He Done Me Wrong: Classic Blues Subjects | |
| |
| |
Other Blues Women of the 1920s | |
| |
| |
Women and the Folk Blues | |
| |
| |
Jazz Influences on the Blues | |
| |
| |
Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
The Folk Blues: 1920-1940 | |
| |
| |
Timeline: 1920-1940 | |
| |
| |
African American Musical Styles | |
| |
| |
Why the Classic Blues Were Recorded Before the Folk Blues | |
| |
| |
Blind Lemon Jefferson | |
| |
| |
The Jug Bands | |
| |
| |
Delta Blues | |
| |
| |
Charley Patton | |
| |
| |
Robert Johnson: His Life, the Music, the Controversies, and the Legend | |
| |
| |
The Impact of Robert Johnson | |
| |
| |
Other Mississippi Artists | |
| |
| |
Piedmont and Other Regional Styles | |
| |
| |
Leadbelly and Lonnie Johnson | |
| |
| |
Mr. Charley's Blues: White Blues Performers | |
| |
| |
Holy Blues | |
| |
| |
The Role of Individual Instruments | |
| |
| |
Memphis Minnie: Women and the Folk Blues | |
| |
| |
Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
Rhythm and Blues and the Beginning of Electric Blues: 1940-1960 | |
| |
| |
Timeline: 1940-1960 | |
| |
| |
Chicago Blues: 1935-1950 | |
| |
| |
Rhythm and Blues | |
| |
| |
The Blues Go Electric: T-Bone Walker | |
| |
| |
Muddy Waters and the Chicago Delta Sound | |
| |
| |
John Lee Hooker and B.B. King | |
| |
| |
The Record Business in Postwar America | |
| |
| |
Rhythm and Blues vs. the Blues | |
| |
| |
Texas Goes to California: The LA R&B scene | |
| |
| |
New York and the Doo-wop Groups | |
| |
| |
New Orleans | |
| |
| |
Rock and Roll and the Blues: 1954-1960 | |
| |
| |
Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
The Blues Revival: 1960-1980 | |
| |
| |
Timeline: 1960-1980 | |
| |
| |
The Folk Revival | |
| |
| |
The Strange Career of Josh White | |
| |
| |
Blues Scholarship and Rediscovered Blues Singers | |
| |
| |
Protest Music and the Blues | |
| |
| |
The Young, White Blues Singers | |
| |
| |
The New Independent Record Labels | |
| |
| |
Why the Blues Became Popular? | |
| |
| |
The Blues Goes Abroad | |
| |
| |
American Blues-Rock Bands | |
| |
| |
Jimi Hendrix | |
| |
| |
Black Gospel Music | |
| |
| |
Soul Music | |
| |
| |
Building a New Blues Audience | |
| |
| |
Louisiana Blues: The Sound of the Swamp | |
| |
| |
The Blues Roll on in Chicago | |
| |
| |
B.B. King's Career and Influence | |
| |
| |
Blues Music Economics | |
| |
| |
Artistic Control | |
| |
| |
Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
The New Generation of Blues Artists: 1980-Today | |
| |
| |
Timeline: 1980-2003 | |
| |
| |
The Late 1970s: The Blues Hiatus | |
| |
| |
Bonnie Raitt | |
| |
| |
Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Austin Blues Scene | |
| |
| |
Independent Labels Fill the Void | |
| |
| |
The Return of Robert Johnson | |
| |
| |
The Emergence of Young, Black Blues Artists | |
| |
| |
Blacks, Whites, and the Blues | |
| |
| |
Women of the Blues | |
| |
| |
The Young Turks: The Blues Rockers | |
| |
| |
Zydeco | |
| |
| |
Regional Music | |
| |
| |
The International Blues | |
| |
| |
Current Outlets for the Blues | |
| |
| |
The Martin Scorsese Blues Series | |
| |
| |
Feel Like Going Home | |
| |
| |
| |
The Soul of a Man | |
| |
| |
The Road to Memphis | |
| |
| |
| |
Warming by the Devil's Fire | |
| |
| |
Godfathers and Sons | |
| |
| |
Red, White and Blues | |
| |
| |
Piano Blues | |
| |
| |
Summary | |
| |
| |
Appendix | |
| |
| |
Note | |
| |
| |
Bibliography | |
| |
| |
Social Histories | |
| |
| |
The Blues and Africa | |
| |
| |
The Minstrel Period | |
| |
| |
Ragtime | |
| |
| |
Social and Musical Background of the Blues | |
| |
| |
Classic Blues | |
| |
| |
Black Country Blues | |
| |
| |
Gospel and Holy Blues | |
| |
| |
Urban Blues, Rockabilly, Rock Blues, the Folk and Blues Revivals, British Blues | |
| |
| |
Protest Music | |
| |
| |
R&B and Soul | |
| |
| |
Cajun, Zydeco, and Swamp Pop | |
| |
| |
The Blues Today | |
| |
| |
Biographies and Autobiographies | |
| |
| |
Collections of Lyrics | |
| |
| |
Songbooks (Words and Music) | |
| |
| |
Record Companies and the Music Business | |
| |
| |
Miscellaenous: Record Guides, Regional Blues, etc. | |
| |
| |
Discography | |
| |
| |
Boxed Sets | |
| |
| |
Black Secular Music Before the Blues | |
| |
| |
Classic Blues Singers: Women of the 1920s | |
| |
| |
Holy Blues | |
| |
| |
Jug Bands | |
| |
| |
Piedmont Blues | |
| |
| |
Mississippi Delta Blues | |
| |
| |
Texas Blues | |
| |
| |
Songsters | |
| |
| |
White Country Blues | |
| |
| |
Urban Blues of the 1930s | |
| |
| |
Various Instruments | |
| |
| |
Social Protest and Commentary | |
| |
| |
Chicago: Early Electric Blues | |
| |
| |
R&B and Soul | |
| |
| |
Chicago: Classic Electric Blues | |
| |
| |
White American and the British Blues Revivalists | |
| |
| |
Rock and Roll | |
| |
| |
Cajun, Zydeco, and Louisiana Swamp Rock | |
| |
| |
The New Black Blues Artists | |
| |
| |
Young Guns | |
| |
| |
Beyond Category | |
| |
| |
Instructional Materials and Videos | |
| |
| |
Books | |
| |
| |
Audio and Visual Materials | |
| |
| |
Performance and Documentary Videos | |
| |
| |
Index | |